Informatics Practices
Jeet has to prepare a project on 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyan'. He decides to gather information from the internet. He downloads three web pages (webpage 1, webpage 2, webpage 3) containing information on Swachh Bharat Mission. Which of the following steps taken by Jeet is/are an example of plagiarism or copyright infringement? Give justification in support of your answer.
(a) He read a paragraph on 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyan' from webpage 1 and rephrased it. He finally pasted the rephrased paragraph in his project.
(b) He downloaded three images of 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyan' from webpage 2. He made a collage for his project using these images.
(c) He downloaded 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyan' icon from webpage 3 and pasted it on the front page of his project report.
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Jeet's actions in all three scenarios (a, b, and c) are examples of plagiarism or copyright infringement because he failed to properly cite or acknowledge the original sources. By rephrasing a paragraph from webpage 1 without credit, downloading and using images from webpage 2 without permission or attribution, and using the 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyan' icon from webpage 3 without permission or attribution, Jeet presented others work as his own, violating fundamental principles of academic integrity and copyright laws, and should have provided proper citations, credits, or acknowledgements to the original sources to avoid these infringements.
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